Sperm whales, giant squid and humans all have a mitochondrial "Eve." Hiroya Minakuchi/Minden Pictures/Corbis. Recently, researchers made waves with the announcement that they had found the mother ...

Enter Mitochondrial Eve, who was first identified nearly 20 years ago by researchers at UC Berkeley. They linked her to the still controversial “out-of-Africa” theory, which holds that all ...

Genetic models agree that mitochondrial Eve, a maternal ancestor to everyone, lived about 200,000 years ago, according to recent research.

'Mitochondrial Eve' Research: Humanity Was Genetically Divided For 100,000 Years. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 05 / 080515154635.htm ...

The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to "mitochondrial Eve" -- the maternal ancestor of all living humans -- confirms that she lived about 200,000 years ago.

The team found that mitochondrial Eve and her descendants lived in this region for about 30,000 years (from 200,000 to 170,000 years ago) before the L0 lineage split into its first subgroup.

"Mitochondrial Eve," as she is called, lived about 200,000 years ago - probably somewhere in Africa, according to Marek Kimmel, professor of statistics at Rice and co-author of a study in the ...

In reality, a mitochondrial Eve is not the first female of a species, but merely the most recent female historically from which all living animals of a species can trace their ancestry.